Anne Elizabeth Moore | |
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Born | 1971 (age 52–53) Winner, South Dakota, U.S. |
Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
Known for | Illustrations |
Anne Elizabeth Moore (born 1971 in Winner, North Dakota) is an American cultural critic, artist, journalist, and editor. She is well known for her books Sweet Little Cunt (2018), Gentrifier: A Memoir (2021), and Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes (2023). Her work mainly deals with the nature of power and women’s oppression, the housing crisis and gentrification, and women’s health.
Moore’s writing has been featured in various publications, including the Guardian, Salon, Paris Review, Chicago Journal, and The Baffler. She has written extensively about culture and media, illness, and human rights. Her essays “Reimagining the National Border Patrol Museum (and Gift Shop)” (2008) and “17 Theses on the Edge” (2010) have respectively received honorable mentions in Best American Non-Required Reading.
Life and career
Born 1971 in Winner, South Dakota, Moore graduated high school to attend the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she got her start and trained as an artist to eventually exhibit work internationally. Her work has also been in the Whitney Biennial in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. She also received various awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts Media Award, the Ragdale Fellowship, the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship, the UN Press Fellowship for journalism, and two Fulbright Scholarships.
Moore was named editor-in-chief of the Chicago Reader in October 2018, replacing Mark Konkol. She abruptly departed the Reader in March 2019.
Currently, she lives in Upstate New York with her cat, Captain America, writing, traveling, teaching, and dealing with the occasional cow and snake.
Nonfiction
Books
- Gentrifier: A Memoir (2021)
Selected Essays
Essays on American Culture
- On Leaving the Birthplace of Standard Time, The Believer (an excerpt from Body Horror)
- Knocked Out Loaded, The New Inquiry
Comics, Books, Film & Art
- The Destabilizing Desire of Julie Doucet, Paris Review (an excerpt from Sweet Little Cunt)
- The Never-ending Story, The Baffler
- Silenced without Proof: On Soft Censorship, PEN America
Media and Politics
- The Vertically Integrated Rape Joke, The Baffler
Women & Labor
- Degendering Value, Jacobin
Awards
- 2019 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work for Sweet Little Cunt: The Graphic Work of Julie Doucet (Uncivilized Books)
References
- "Anne Elizabeth Moore". Retrieved July 27, 2023.
- "Anne Elizabeth Moore named editor of Chicago Reader - Robert Feder".
- "Robservations: Kris Kridel stepping back at WBBM Newsradio - Robert Feder".
- Quart, Alissa. "Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity". Mother Jones. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
- "Sunday Rumpus Essay: Thoughts On The Hip Hop Apsara - The Rumpus.net". therumpus.net. July 29, 2012. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
- "Book Review | New Girl Law: Drafting a Future for Cambodia". bust.com. May 23, 2013. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
- Fons, Mary (February 11, 2017). "Book Review: 'Threadbare: Clothes, Sex, and Trafficking'". F Newsmagazine. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
- "Illness as Horror Movie, and Other Thoughts on Time, Disease, and Capitalism". Literary Hub. April 28, 2017. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
- "On Leaving the Birthplace of Standard Time". Believer Magazine. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
- Moore, Anne Elizabeth (March 18, 2013). "Knocked Out Loaded". The New Inquiry. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
- Moore, Anne Elizabeth (October 25, 2018). "The Destabilizing Desire of Julie Doucet". The Paris Review. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
- "The Never-ending Story | Anne Elizabeth Moore". The Baffler. October 25, 2017. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
- Moore, Anne Elizabeth (September 27, 2016). "Silenced Without Proof: On Soft Censorship". PEN America. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
- "Our Pol Pot". n+1. March 19, 2012. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
- "The Vertically Integrated Rape Joke". The Baffler. June 4, 2014. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
- Moore, Anne Elizabeth (May 28, 2014). "Here's why it matters when a human rights crusader builds her advocacy on lies". Salon. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
- "Degendering Value". jacobin.com. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
External links
- Official website
- Three Days in Detroit (2017)
- The Tupperware Party (2018)
- American editors
- Comics critics
- Book artists
- American contemporary artists
- Webzine writers
- American women essayists
- American essayists
- Living people
- University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire alumni
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
- 1971 births
- American women illustrators
- American illustrators
- Women book artists
- 21st-century American women